Bishop of London, Great Britain and Ireland Nektarios.
Bishop Nektarios (birth name Ratko Samardžić) is the British-Irish bishop and former Vicar Bishop of Jegar (2022 - 2024).
Born in Sarajevo, to father Nemanja (†2009) and mother Nada (née Remić). He began primary school in Sarajevo and finished in Gothenburg (Kingdom of Sweden), where his family moved due to the war in the 1990s.
The seminary of St. Peter of Dabrobosanski was completed in Foca in 2003. years. After the seminary, he continued his education at the Moscow spiritual Academy in the period from 2003-2006. years. Postgraduate studies continue at the Faculty of Theology of the Kapodistrian University (2012-2016) and the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2016-2019). At the Faculty of Theology in Thessaloniki, he defended the work under the theme "pastoral reviews of the ecclesiology of St. Nektarios of Aegina".
He was ordained to the rank of small schemamonk 1st June 2007. To the rank of hierodeacon he was ordained the next day 2nd June 2007 and to hieropriest 16th June that same year. He was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite 21st July 2013 in the monastery The Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God.
At the regular May session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2022, he was elected Bishop of Jegar, Vicar Bishop to the Serbian Patriarch.
On 26th November 2022 in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade, he was appointed Bishop of Jegar, Vicar Bishop to the Serbian Patriarch.
On 27th November 2022 in the Church of St. Sava, Vracar, he was ordained Bishop of Jegar, Vicar Bishop to the Serbian Patriarch.
On 18th May 2024 the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church elected him Bishop to the newly created Diocese of Great Britain and Ireland with its seat in London.